The csv module in Python doesn't work properly when there's UTF-8/Unicode involved. I have found, in the Python documentation and on other webpages, snippets that work for specific cases but you have to understand well what encoding you are handling and use the appropriate snippet.
How can I read and write both strings and Unicode strings from .csv files that "just works" in Python 2.6? Or is this a limitation of Python 2.6 that has no simple solution?